Canadian DMCA To Be Introduced This Spring

The Hill Times reports this week (issue still not online) that the Conservative government will introduce copyright reform legislation this spring provided that there is no election. The paper points to two main changes from the Liberals Bill C-60 – tougher anti-circumvention legislation (ie. DMCA-style laws that ban devices that can be used to circumvent as well as provisions that block all circumvention subject to the odd exception) and an educational exception that will provide for free access to web-based materials.

Great. Just great! Canada did not need to become more like the US (does anyone disagree?) but it is becoming so… slowly. This is not 100% certain as of yet, but it’s unlikely to change at this point. So needless…

Source: Michael Geist